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The Confirmation of Amabile¡¦s Component Model of Creativity and Consensual Assessment Technique: The Evidence of Children¡¦s Drawing

Amabile defines creativity from ¡§product¡¨. In her opinion, the behavior of creativity is by the products of the relevant fields of expert's assessment, and develops ¡§consensual assessment technique (CAT)¡¨ as the way to measure creativity. And Amabile proposes ¡§component model of creativity¡¨. If individual wants to have the creative behavior, he must possess three components: ¡§expertise¡¨, ¡§creative-thinking skill¡¨, and ¡§ task motivation¡¨. The main purpose of this study was to confirm the Amabile¡¦s component model of creativity and consensual assessment technique.
This study had collected 29 students of a fifth grade in primary school class, and amounted to 162 drawing products. There were 9 judges come from 3 art domain expert's groups, including that 3 judges come from university professor's group, 3 judges come from junior and elementary teacher's groups, and 3 judges come from painter's groups. Each judge used the inventory of consensual assessment to evaluate each product independently. And this study designed inventory to exam students in the same class in order to collect the data.
According to the results of the research: ( a) It was high common consensus that all judges evaluate creativity ,( b) It was middle-to-low common consensus that each group evaluate creativity , (c) Creativity measures taken in different groups showed significant correlations, (d) It was high common consensus to evaluate the creativity of the specific theme works, (e) The correlation between expertise and creativity was significant, (f) The correlation between creative-thinking skill and creativity was significant, (g) The correlation between motivation and creativity was significant.
According to the results of the study, it could provide some suggestions for education and relevant studies, and it offered the foundation of further following studies in academia.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0913106-152253
Date13 September 2006
CreatorsLai, Chu-ching
ContributorsYing-yao Cheng, none, I-heng Chen
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0913106-152253
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